Wednesday, November 7th 2007
R680 to Possibly Arrive by End of Year
While AMD is working very hard to ensure the RV670 launch will be a success, we're hearing very little about the alleged "R680" graphics card. According to AMD's partners, R680 is indeed a real AMD graphics card that is currently in development. At this point, it is supposedly a dual-RV670 solution, and we may be seeing it in retail channels before Christmas. We'll keep you posted.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
12 Comments on R680 to Possibly Arrive by End of Year
I don't see them droping support overnight
This will be the 2nd card that ati release with the twin gpu design that I know of. There was the X1950pro that sappire bought out... correct me if I am wrong but that didn't do all that well, possibly because it came out just that bit late..
edit: nvidia is coming up with a similar card, but it is going to be 2 g92 gpus on 2 pcbs. Not sure how that's going to work. Also, another highend single gpu card g100 or something.
tis pretty cool though how it distributes the 12v rails. www.enermax.com/english/upload/document/M200671214475627129.pdf
This gives you the opportunity to run OCTO-Crossfire in a 4 PEG MoBo.
Fianlly maybe a justification for advancing the super-tiling option in Xfire.